Psycho Dad

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Psycho Dad is Rachel Guerry's creative, filmic interpretation of the song Psycho Dad and the novel That's Why I Wrote This Song. The song produced by Tony Buchen is the sound track for the film clip, exploring the relationships of fathers and daughters. Rachel and Tony both discussed the creative aspects with Susanne to capture the spirit of 'That's Why i Wrote This Song.'

That's Why I Wrote Song is about four girls who form a band, Not Perfect. The video clip follows Pip, one of the two lead singers, and her psycho dad and Karen, the other lead singer. Pip is drowning in tears in the face of her aggressive father. With the support of her brother, mum, music, the band of girlfriends, she reclaims power, throwing away the tears. The father is left alone rethinking his actions.

The video script was written, produced and directed by young film maker Rachel Guerry, UTS graduate with a BA in Communication in Media Arts and Production.

The Director of Photography (DOP), camera man and special FX editor Martyn Taylor has been DOP on music clips, short films and worked on feature films.

Director of Photography

The Assistant Producer Mark Ure is a trained actor who has worked in TV and commercials and was the production coordinator for The Sydney Film Festival.

Eddie Tang was First Assistant Director (AD) and is an actor who was 3rd AD on Australian films, Little Fish and Candy.

First Assistant Director

Gavin Tyrell was special effects editor and has worked on projects including Superman 3 and Nim’s Island.

The Psycho Dad was played by Peter Carmody, a well known Australian actor and director who founded the Griffin Theatre. In 2007 he won the best actor award at Sydney's short and sweet film season.

Peter Carmody

Susanne Gervay, the author and executive producer, author and creative consultant, played Pip's mother.

Susanne Gervay

The Band: Pip: Played by Tullia Mawter who performs in student musicals and plays.
Karen: Played by Danielle Nicholson, a trained actor who has been in short films and plays.
Angie: Played by Trish Cassimatis, violinist in Sydney Youth Orchestra.
Irina: Played by Cat Hunter a music scholarship student for drums.

Other actors: Eddie, the brother - Mark Ure; Other Woman - Beth Webb;

Lead kids - Len Gervay, Jamie Ruben and Eve Guerry; Others kids - Nathan Guerry, Meagan Lee, Sarah Urwand, Emily Staniforth, Shevaughn Mawter, Adam Finger, Kate Bruxner, Brooke Selby, Khan Arda, Janice Zets and the singer–songwriter for the short film, Tory Gervay.

Camera Operators - Toni Zipevski and Shannon Selby
Camera Assistant, Editor - Nathan Guerry
Camera / Lighting assistant - Victor Tang
Lighting - Richard Hawking
Make Up, Wardrobe - Mia Kern
Stills Photography - Rick Munitz
Runners - Annette Guerry, Evelyn Foltyn, Jeni Mawter, Beth Webb, Khan Arda, Bill Frankland.
Catering - Mark Eldridge, The Hughenden Boutique Hotel
Film locations: Provided by Shannon Selby and Annette Guerry

View a selection of still photographs from the video clip below. Click each thumbnail for a larger view.

Photographs by Rick Munitz.

Psycho Dad Lyrics

Verse 1 -

All of the times I cried
I wish you'd just die
Shouting and all the rest
But now I have learned best
What you did was wrong
That's why I wrote this song
So maybe you would see
Just what you have done to me

Chorus -

Cause I don't want you
And I don't need you
You were so bad
You are my psycho dad

Verse 2 -

You call me all the time
You won't give us a dime
I can't believe this is real
The way you made me feel
You have your new wife
And your new life
My eyes are getting sore
So just walk out that door

Chorus -

Cause I don't want you
And I don't need you
Your life is so sad
You are a psycho dad

Middle 8 -

I (I) really (really) don't know how (don't know how)
But I (But I) know I (know I)
Hate you so much now

Verse 3 -

You made me feel always scared
I knew you never cared
You left me all broken and scarred
And made our life so hard
I've got my family
And I hope you can see
That I don't want you around
I've got my feet on the ground

Chorus -

Cause I don't want you
And I don't need you
You are so mad
You are no one's psycho dad

Outro -

No one's psycho dad
No one's psycho dad
No one's psycho dad
No one's psycho dad

Psycho Dad - The DVD

Featuring the video PSYCHO DAD and the songs, I Wanna Be Found & Psycho Dad by Tory Gervay.

Producing the DVD was a challenge - what to put on it? How to present? The message? Themes? Should it be the same as the book? Different? The artwork? The packaging? The technology? How to distribute? The COST!!!!

Rachel Guerry the film producer was the creative force in the artwork on the DVD and the insert, with some editing commentary by Susanne Gervay (the author) and the editor Gavin Tyrell.

The DVD has three tracts including the video of Psycho Dad produced by Rachel Guerry and sung by Tory Gervay; the original songs track Psycho Dad and I Wanna Be Found by Tory Gervay - all integral to the book 'That's Why I Wrote This Song' by Susanne Gervay.

The images were taken from the video clip itself . The still photographs were taken by photographer Rick Munitz.

The four photos for the DVD:

The cover - Pip is lying on her bed angry and confused about her Psycho Dad. The photo is from the video clip.

The leaflet insert - The beautiful blue image of Pip's tears dropping into the water, symbolizing her drowning under her loss of power due to her PSYCHO DAD. The photo is from the video clip.

The images for the song tracks are:-
The ocean scene for I Wanna Be Found
Eddie jumping in the air with Not Perfect the band is in the background.

The DVD's were a launch feature and given out with each purchase of the book 'That's Why I Wrote This Song'.

Click each of the images below for a larger view.